[calvin-c]

I've seen a lot of arguments about eBooks vs treeBooks and they remind me in many ways of an argument I had a year ago about country vs rock music. I complained about a country-music concert that, in my opinion, was obviously staged by rock music promoters-because they set the sound system up appropriately for rock, but inappropriately for country.

Few people seemed to understand what I meant by that which leads me to believe that they really don't think very much about the real issues of things. In the case of music genres, the difference is that to rock music fans it's the music that's important-to country music fans it's the song & the concert I complained about was set up such that the music overwhelmed the singer.

Now to get back to the subject, I see a similar issue in the argument between eBook & treeBook fans. If it's the story that's important, then the media doesn't matter as long as it's appropriate (IMO listening to a book being read isn't a viable replacement for reading the book yourself). But if it's the book that's important then the media matters.

Hence, my question. I didn't set this up as a poll because I'm not really interested in which 'camp' you belong to, what I'd like to see is more people realizing that the issue is what's important to them rather than which is 'better'.